Modulus modulus

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Speciesbox | image = Modulus modulus (Atlantic modulus snail) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 2 (16190200492).jpg | image_caption = | taxon= Modulus modulus | authority = (Linnaeus, 1758) | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = * ''Ethalia tasmanica'' Tenison Woods, 1877 (junior synonym) * ''Modulus canaliculatus'' Mörch, 1876 * ''Modulus convexior'' Mörch, 1876 * ''Modulus krebsii'' Mörch, 1876 * ''Modulus lenticularis'' (Lamarck, 1822) junior subjective synonym * ''Modulus perlatus'' (Gmelin, 1791) * ''Modulus pisum'' Mörch, 1876 * ''Modulus unidens'' (A. d'Orbigny, 1842) junior subjective synonym * ''Trochus filosus'' Helbling, 1779 junior subjective synonym * ''Trochus lenticularis'' Chemnitz, 1781 unavailable name * ''Trochus modulus'' Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) * ''Trochus perlatus'' Gmelin, 1791 * ''Trochus unidens'' A. d'Orbigny, 1842 junior subjective synonym }}

'''''Modulus modulus''''', commonly known as the '''buttonsnail''', is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Modulidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|419529|''Modulus modulus'' (Linnaeus, 1758)||17 May 2010}}</ref>

==Distribution== This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and includes both the east and west coast of Florida.

==Description== The maximum recorded shell length is 16.5 mm.<ref name="Welch 2010">Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". ''PLOS One'' '''5'''(1): e8776. {{doi|10.1371/journal.pone.0008776|doi-access=free}}.</ref> The overall shape of the shell is button-like, with a gray or brown streaked, ridge-sculptured body whorl and a low spire.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}

==Habitat== The minimum recorded depth is 0 m.<ref name="Welch 2010"/> The maximum recorded depth is 105 m.<ref name="Welch 2010"/>

Found in shell grit and coral sand, among sea grass beds -at 2 to 3 feet depth.

==References== {{reflist}} * Holzer, K. K.; Rueda, J. L.; McGlathery, K. J. (2011). Differences in the feeding ecology of two seagrass-associated snails. Estuaries and Coasts, 10 pp * Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. * Florida's Living Beaches by Blair and Dawn Witherington, 2010, Pineapple Press, Inc.

==External links== * {{cite book |last1=Linnaeus |first1=C. |title=Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. |date=1758 |publisher=Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii |location=Stockholm |page=757 |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 |access-date=17 September 2025}} * {{cite journal |last1=Mörch [Mørch] |first1=O.A.L. |title=Synopsis molluscorum marinorum Indiarum occidentalium imprimis insularum danicarum |journal=Malakozoologische Blätter |date=1876 |volume=23 |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15854452}} * {{cite book |last1=Gmelin |first1=J.F. |title=Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). |date=1791 |publisher=G.E. Beer |location=Leipzig |page=3577 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5}} * {{cite book |last1=Chemnitz |first1=J.H. |title=Neues systematisches Conchylien Cabinet |date=1780–1795 |publisher=Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe |location=Nürnberg |page=5 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/43760}} * {{cite book |last1=Orbigny |first1=A. d' |title=Mollusques. In: R. de la Sagra (ed.). Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'Ile de Cuba. |date=1841–1853 |publisher=Arthus Bertrand |location=Paris |page=57 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/138987}} * {{cite journal |last1=Tenison Woods |first1=J.E. |title=On some new Tasmanian marine shells. (Second series) |journal=Papers and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of Tasmania |date=1877 |volume=1876 |page=146 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12289352}} * {{cite journal |last1=Helbling |first1=J.S. |title=Beyträge zur Kenntniß neuer und seltener Konchylien. Aus einigen Wienerischen Sammlungen |journal=Abhandlungen einer Privatgesellschaft in Böhmen, zur Aufnahme der Mathematik, der vaterländischen Geschichte, und der Naturgeschichte |date=1779 |volume=4 |page=123 |url=http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN624644928%7CLOG_0013}} * {{cite journal |last1=Hedley |first1=C. |title=Notes on Tasmanian and West Indian conchology |journal=The Nautilus |date=1902 |volume=16 |issue=5 |page=49 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1754322}} * {{cite journal |last1=Mook |first1=D. |title=Studies on fouling invertebrates in the Indian River, Florida 2: Effect of Modulus modulus (Prosobranchia: Modulidae). |journal=The Nautilus |date=1977 |volume=9 |issue=14 |pages=134–135 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8273662}} * {{cite journal |last1=Dall |first1=W.H. |title=Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida with especial reference to the Miocene silex-beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Caloosahatchie River. 2. Streptodont and other gastropods, concluded |journal=Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia. |date=1892 |volume=3 |issue=2 |page=295 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31456881 |access-date=17 September 2025}}

Category:Modulidae Category:Gastropods described in 1758 Category:Animal taxa named by Carl Linnaeus